Sunday, February 27, 2011

We don't really name our coffee cups, but this one is just so big and so red! I don't have any bright red creamers or tea cups, and wanted something really red. I also wanted to continue painting reflections, but, those on the object, not on the table.

Friday, February 25, 2011

I recently hung some paintings at Dream Pastries in downtown Castle Rock, Colorado which is just north of Colorado Springs. Dream Pastries is a bakery, coffee shop, breakfast and lunch restaurant, and wedding cake venue which hangs art work on its walls. No sooner had I hung the work than this piece sold. You never know where the next collector might be. For those of you who live in the area, stop by for a pastry, they're delicious. And, if you become a FB friend you get a free pastry or coffee!

Monday, February 21, 2011

The trees and shadows create an L or partial rectangle, another of Edgar Payne's compositional forms. Had I put one of the shrubs very near the far edge, this might have been Payne's steelyard composition.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Last fall I did a series of paintings using aspen tree shadows to study Edgar Payne's forms of composition. After our recent snow I went for a walk and took photos. It was way to cold for plein air work. This piece combines his radiating and diagonal lines arrangements. Had I shown more of the shadow from the hidden tree on the right, you would easily see the radiating lines. But, since that's not visible this is almost diagonal. I think combining arrangements would be okay with Edgar Payne. He stated: "it is well to improvise without considering any particular form or arrangement."

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

This rolling pin belonged to my husband's grandmother. It was in the summer home that his grandparents built in 1911. His parents had the home until the late 1980's. This is one of the momentos that my husband kept when the home was sold. I use it whenever I bake pies, usually over the holidays. The red paint is chipping, but the roller works, and who knows how many pie crusts have been made from this.

This weekend was the opening of the show "Smallworks" at the Richeson 75 Gallery in Kimberly, Wisconsin. I am thrilled that two of my paintings, Sidewalk Shadow and Faucet Shadow were juried as "Meritorious Entry" and will be included in the book published for the competition.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Lemonade
Oil on 2 6" x 6" panels
$75.00 + $10. s/h
This is my submission for this weeks Daily Paintworks challenge. The object was to take an object and paint it 8 times, but only spend 10 minutes on each painting. I've been thinking about doing another tea party painting with a lemon on a plate. So, it seemed like a good practice. I was planning on putting the lemon wedge on a little white plate, but, I may rethink that as I think it looks better on a dark background. Maybe that's two paintings in the planning!

Monday, February 7, 2011

This is the back garden gate of the main ranch house at Triangle L Ranch and B&B in Oracle, Az. When the ranch was homesteaded in the 1890's, or when it became a guest ranch in the 1920's, there may have been both a front formal garden as well as a back vegetable garden.

Friday, February 4, 2011

In early December my husband and I stayed at the Triangle L Guest Ranch and Bed and Breakfast in Oracle, Arizona. We'd never been to the Tucson area and spent several days exploring the desert surroundings. Being at the Triangle L is like stepping back in history. Many of the whitewashed adobe buildings were built in the 1890's. Guests stay in cottages near the main ranch house. The corral fence is built of stacked wood. The ranch had several garden areas, lots of gates, doorways, outbuildings, a windmill. It was great for getting me back to my garden series.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Carol Marine has started a new challenge through Daily Paintworks. So many great entrees have been submitted. This one was "challenging" so to speak!

Today I attended the Colorado Springs area meeting of Artists of Colorado and Daily Painters of Colorado. It was so great to meet some of the other artists in the group that I didn't already know and to hear about new upcoming events. If you live in Colorado and are interested in learning about these groups, please look at the website.

About Me

I am an oil painter from Colorado Springs, Colorado. I retired in May 2008 after 28 years of teaching art and now have more time to pursue my passions of painting and traveling. My life has revolved around my love of art, starting with afternoon art classes while in kindergarten, a degree in art education, sharing my passion with hundreds of students yearly, and painting as often as I can. This journal is a combination of my daily paintings, my studio and plein-air work, my classes and workshops, and pieces from my travels past and present.

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